"Stretching out a hand in the dark" Interview with Sarah Gristwood on the history of women and diaries

“In the world of Downton Abbey, both Lady Mary and her maid could’ve written a diary but Lady Mary’s was far more likely to have been kept”

In this episode of All Things History, we speak to historian Sarah Gristwood, whose latest book Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries explores four hundred years of women’s diary keeping. Why did they write? What …